Craig Gordon is now the complete package under Brendan Rodgers (Image: SNS Group)

Gordon burst on to the scene as a kid at Hearts

For Gordon, who represented Hearts Boys’ Club and spent seven years as a first-team star for the Jambos, it’s an ironic scenario yet one he is relishing as Celtic look to finish off the Premiership job.

“Over the whole season we have gone and done everything that has been asked of us domestically and it doesn’t matter whether it is before the game or not.”

Naturally though there will be a number of fans who want to see the players finish the task themselves.

Given how they’ve performed this term a slip-up seems unlikely. Celtic have smashed unbeaten records and haven’t lost in 29 top-flight outings this term.

It’s not just club football where the players have excelled either with six of Sunday’s line-up going into action against Hearts fresh from a superb Scotland showing against Slovenia last weekend.

Rodgers’s troops transferred their Parkhead form on to the biggest stage with Stuart Armstrong man of the match on his debut, Kieran Tierney starring at right-back, Scott Brown a driving force in midfielder, James Forrest causing mayhem, Leigh Griffiths impressive in attack and Gordon keeping a clean sheet.

Celtic's Leigh Griffiths opens the scoring against Dundee with a free-kick

The displays were a major shot in the arm for Rodgers’s squad and Gordon said: “The combinations worked really well, especially in the first half. Some of the movements and patterns of play were similar to what you would see at club level.

“The boys playing together does help the solidity of the team and the passing and the areas we were trying to get in. People knew what the other was going to do.